• Walking in the city as (model for) “dissensus” 

  Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  This paper explores the variegated spatial meanings of “the city” by way of Michel de Certeau’s reflections on “walking in the city” as part of “the practice of everyday life”, which he conceives of as allowing people ...
• Ruin cities : sources of nostalgia, consolation, revenge, tectonic landscape and inspiration 

  Jordaan, June; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  Ruin cities haunt our imagination and arouse our curiosity for a number of reasons. Those features in them that interest an artist are the characteristic of timelessness that they accrue over the years. Furthermore, they ...
• Globalisation, vernacularisasion and the invention of identities 

  Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  Architects are adamant that academic qualifications are a prerequisite for design competence. It is therefore ironic that vernacular architecture is having a significant impact on contemporary architectural design ...
• Being and becoming in the Late Anthropocene 

  Green, David; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  Colonisation as an ongoing process continues to obfuscate the real identity of a culture “becoming” in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In writing about aspects of my arts practice I touch upon certain Hericlitean, Platonic, and ...
• Interpreting images from South African family photographic collections of the Anglo-Boer War period 1899 to 1902 

  Du Toit, Flip; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  Photography’s truth telling technology enticed early photographers to capture images of war such as the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Many of these images include family photographic collections that were taken in and around ...
• City Walls to city streets : utopias of dissent 

  Kruger, Runette; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  Lewis Mumford makes the case that the first (western) utopia was a City, and that the first (western) City was a utopia, and David Harvey similarly iterates that “[t]he figures of ‘the city’ and of ‘Utopia’ have long ...
• The devil and his works : the owl in Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) 

  Zuiddam, Benno; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
• The territory shaped : urban plans and urbanization policy in Portuguese America 

  Derntl, Maria Fernanda; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  From the mid-18th century on, the number of images of towns and villages of the Portuguese colony in South America increased steadily and showed noticeably similar urban features. These images have been presented in ...
• The role of the second architect on a significant building site 

  Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  This article expounds Edmond Bacon’s “principle of the second man”, formulated in his Design of Cities (1967), as a criterion for judging the addition of another building or additional architectural structures a on a ...
• Zen and the art of artmaking : Goldsworthy and Kapoor 

  Bhana, Poorvi; Stevens, Ingrid; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  This article focuses on the work of two contemporary artists and the ways in which their work can be shown to relate to Zen Buddhist philosophies and aesthetics. It aims to examine the interpretation of Western art by ...
• A rhetorical interpretation of a geometric diagram of Plato’s “Creation Myth” overlaid on the Parthenon’s main facade 

  Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  A visual rhetorical interpretation of the design and symbolism of the pedimented main facade of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is based on a schematic geometric diagram of Plato’s “Creation Myth”, as described ...
• The “wall of flesh” of the Conquered Territory : farmhouses and towns established in defence of the eastern boundary of the Orange Free State, beginning 1866 

  Peters, Walter; Du Preez, J.L.; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  To defend the sovereignty of the Conquered Territory along the eastern frontier of the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State (OFS) and Basutoland (Lesotho), the government of the former passed the Occupation Act, 1866, ...
• The Women’s Monument and memorial complexity in the context of political change: from memorial exclusivity to monument(al) inclusivity 

  Labuschagne, Pieter; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  The Women’s Monument that was erected in Bloemfontein during 1913 fulfilled a strong urge by prominent Afrikaner leaders, such as President Steyn, to commemorate the sacrifices made by women and children during the Anglo ...
• West African influence on various projects by Le Corbusier 

  Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  This article contributes to the renewed interest in Le Corbusier by exploring a proposition by the African American architect and scholar, Melvin Mitchell, that West African art and architecture had a decisive influence ...
• Van Brandenburg unfurled: architecture in the expanded field of contemporary practice 

  Schmidt, Leoni; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  This article considers a current project undertaken by Architecture Van Brandenburg in Shenzhen, China. Locating, touching, mimicking, integrating, crafting, unfurling and exhibiting are subheadings used to discuss salient ...
• Architecture, historicism and historiography 

  Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  This paper considers the legacy of historicism and debates within modern/post-modern historiography – especially in the work of Keith Jenkins, Michael Podro and Hayden White – and discusses how these crucial perspectives ...
• The colonial gaze and the artist’s use of authoring strategies in Charles Davidson Bell’s The Landing of Van Riebeeck, 1652 

  Strydom, Richardt; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  At the time of their making, colonial paintings were considered objective accounts of actual places and situations. Contemporary redress of colonial depictions contends however that such representations were culturally ...
• The representation of women as a competitive self-objectified image : a new design identity of misleading slimming advertising 

  De Lange, Rudi W; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  Misleading slimming advertisements are a prominent visual feature in South African magazines that target young women. These commercial messages are particularly pervasive in magazines that focus on health, fitness, and ...
• Reflective Conversations : baudrillard’s orders of the simulacrum 

  Goosen, Moya; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  The French poststructuralist Baudrillard’s (1981; 1983; 1976 and 1994) conceptualisation of the simulacrum entails the philosophical-theoretical exploration of the deconstruction and simultaneous realisation of the real. ...
• Landscape art and the territorial ontology : a call for landscape restitution 

  Goodrich, Andre; Strydom, Richardt; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)

  Ingold has used Marx’s distinction between exchange value and use value to distinguish between land and landscape. Land, Ingold suggests, is abstracted, quantitative and interchangeable. Landscape, by contrast, is ...

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